Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Retribution. Tomoyuki Yamashita, "Tiger of Malaya" and conqueror of Singapore, climbed down from a Philippine mountaintop on Sept. 2, 1945 to surrender to the Americans. From Tokyo, Supreme Allied Commander MacArthur ordered his immediate trial as a war criminal. Some 60,000 Filipinos and Americans had suffered and died in Japanese atrocities during the eleven months of Yamashita's command in the Philippines. Their fate cried for retribution...
...charge against Yamashita was that he had "unlawfully disregarded and failed to discharge his duty as commander to control the operations of the members of his command, permitting them to commit brutal atrocities . . . thereby violated the Laws of War." This charge, described by the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge as "vagueness if not vacuity," laid down a new principle-that a commander is a criminal if his men violate the Laws of War, whether he ordered the violations or even knew of them...
...rnberg trials have been subject to grave questioning, but at least they attempted to link every man accused with specific acts. The Yamashita trial simply proved atrocities and then held Yamashita responsible because he was in technical (but not actual) command of the area where they were committed...
...Boston has remained very close to $2000 per capita. As the cost of living has risen, this valuation which normally should follow the trend of the owner's prosperity, has remained steady; the land is so poor for industry and residence that even in good times it cannot command a reasonable price on the real estate market. The facts that so much of Boston is filled land and that so many of Boston's streets were planned without regard for the modern commercial world are the big reasons why this land cannot bring a higher price...
...most vital link in the chain of command is the roof telephone. Since the coaches on the field can get only a very general idea of what's going right or wrong, backfield coach Steve Sebo is posted in the press box, with a direct wire leading to the bench...